Spreading Good News – Long Live Free Extensions!

We are surprised how enthusiastically you handle our free products! Within 10 days 1000 users have downloaded free Silver Mobile Theme while Facebook Connect and Like Free extension outperformed it with over 4000 downloads in a week. We try our best to serve you as well as we can, and with every positive review we step forward and feel more responsibility than earlier.

Since you definitely like our free Magento products, we embraced the idea of pleasing you with more free BelVG themes. We introduce you another free pack – Black and Yellow and Blue Depth Mobile Themes. Our free themes are compatible with all Magento editions and work on all mobile platforms and gadgets.

We are going to release one free extension/theme quarterly. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter to get the latest information about updates.

Why did we decide to set “free extension practice” on a regular basis? Here are some significant reasons:

1. We create high-quality extensions for free as samples of professional development. 80% of free extensions represent a poor quality offering, and BelVG wants to break this bad habit.

2. We commit ourselves to publicity policy and will start posting old extensions or those with limited functionality. It would satisfy the demand of new customers who got free high-grade extensions, tested them and became convinced they make their stores better.

3. We admit that plagiarism in IT exists and won’t be defeated easily. Even though we can’t eliminate it, we are able to make its consequences less striking. Take our free extensions as a good copying example or perceive them as jumping point for young developers.

4. We want to contribute to Magento community and develop it as we develop our extensions.

Alex Huk is a chief of technical department in BelVG eCommerce Development Company. He has 7+ years experience in PHP, MySQL, Ajax, XHTML, JScript, etc. as well as in property relations consulting, CTO, e-Commerce, modules development and more. Such a background allows him to generate great ideas, conduct e-Commerce consultations and communicate with partners.

Being absorbed in his work, Alex Huk still spends a lot of time with his beautiful wife and baby-boy. He’s really passionate about swimming and fond of motors – automobile, boat, airplane, tank.

According to the world’s trends, online stores should be adapted for mobile users. We’ll pass without notice any disputes on this issue. We’ll also ignore the implementation methods: mobile and responsive themes, applications and separated mobile websites. Let’s simply agree with the following fact: mobile store customers should be just as satisfied with browsing experience as their desktop colleagues.

So be it, then – mobile themes are reasonably necessary. Let’s now find out who spends more time in the online store. Is it a fastidious customer? Or a competitor? Or maybe Tax Authorities? None of the above. This is an admin! But we care about our customers as much as we ignore our managers. I don’t mean that developers don’t think how to make easy-to-use admin panel. They work on desktop devices and develop admin panel for themselves. It sounds justly. But this justice doesn’t work for the admin who decided to check out how it goes in the store during the trip. (more…)

The phrase Mobile Commerce was originally coined in 1997, to mean “the delivery of electronic commerce capabilities directly into the consumer’s hand, anywhere, via wireless technology.” Many choose to think of Mobile Commerce as meaning “a retail outlet in your customer’s pocket.”

According to BI Intelligence in January 2013, 29% of mobile users have now made a purchase with their phones. Walmart estimated that 40% of all visits to their internet shopping site in December 2012 were from a mobile device. Bank of America predicts $67.1 billion in purchases will be made from mobile devices by European and U.S. shoppers in 2015. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_commerce) (more…)